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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	word_n	work_n	writer_n	80	3	7.8452	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45579	A banquet of essayes, fetcht out of famous Owens confectionary, disht out, and served up at the table of Mecoenas by Henry Harflete ...; Epigrammata Horace. English. Selections. 1653	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622.; Horace.	1653 (1653)	Wing H766; ESTC R3351	30,518	94

the proud dame may see her painted face and supersficialized soule her envious eye and contumelious tongue her impudent fore-head and immodest countenance In these Glasses the Altar-Priest enrobed in his vestry vestments may see is own picture 2 Kings 10. there he may see the worshippers of Baal attired in Baals vestments and at last their idolatrous vestments by the command of Jehu hewn off their shoulders with the edge of the sword In these Glasses the Persecutor may see the Whore of Babylon surfeited with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. 6. and at length the righteous GOD avenging the blood of his servants at her hand Rev. 19. 2. In a word in these Glasses every sinful man may see the Anatomy of his own sinful soul and GODS definitive judgement for the same without timely repentance Rev. 21. 8. Thirdly Illuminative Good Books like Glasses do 1. Enlighten the house of the heart and keep out the 2. Dust of Pride and Hypocrise 3. Winde of vain-glory Qui legis ista The Printers Presse is like unto a Garden where are stinking weeds as well as sweet-smelling flowers what do I then I do like fine-handed dames pick up the flowers kick at the weeds I grace my hand with the one but I can scarce afford that my eye or foot should grace the other mine eye by a a speculation or my foot by an inculcation ESSAY III. Of Application Qui legis ista tuam APplication is the life of Doctrine It is a strong perswasion to conversion It was a Symbole of Aurelius Numerianus Esto quod audis Be what you hear To which I may adde Esto quod legis Be what thou readest or lead thy life according to that rule given in thy Book-Doctrine and thou wilt shall I say work a miracle put a living soul into a dead body revive the dead letter by the spirit of Application In vain is Reprehension without Application how fitly have the Greeks fitted it calling it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} apto to fit for harmony is a sweet and pleasant Musick consisting of many notes yet none discord but sweetly close together If the Reader or Hearer apply not that which is read or heard by a religious life and conversation there is a jarre or discord between the Confuter and Confuted who denies the truth of the Doctrine in his irreligious practice how sweetly then do the Writer and Reader Preacher and Hearer accord when the work of the one attends the word or pen of the other when Obedience makes the Epilogue to the Writers Catalogue when the one gives a Practical Amen to the others Theoreticall Doctrine Tuam Application is a kinde of Adaptation and the Doctrine must be fitted for Application as Taylors fit apparel for the body neither too wide nor too strait if it be too wide it may draw the Reader or Hearer to a presumption or obduration if it be too strait it may perswade him to desparation Tuam Men write because men are vicious and vicious men should read to mend that 's the end of writing and reading too but we do like Taylors we are mending all the week all the yeare yea all our lives long and yet not mended We sit mending upon the Sh●p-board of this World and forget that Hell is so near us as under the Board every time we commit a sinne we throw a shred to Hell Our good actions are forgotten assoon as gotten The Worldling makes a journey to Church every Sabbath day and sometimes heares the Word with the ●ares of attention but could never ●inde the heart of retention the Preacher may reply but he never intends to apply and sometimes Gods House may be a continent for his body but his Counting-house shall be a repository for his minde and so leaves his Religion where he found it so that he ties Religion altogether to time and place nay to his Holy-day-apparel too he s●r●ps himself of his Holy-day-cloathes and 〈◊〉 his Soul of devotion altogether Thus runs he posting to his native rest Forgets the Word and takes it for a jest ESSAY V. Of Reprehension Qui legis ista tuam reprehendo ETymologies may sometimes instruct and without offence of me essayed to initiate an Essay of Reprehension The Latines call it Reprehensio from re and prehensio a taking or pulcking back Experience daily objects to our sight the untoward carriage of the home-bred or countrey-horse who being altogether in the extreames is either too dull and slow or too quick and hasty either too forward or too backward wherefore his Rider provides him both calcar and fraenum a spurre and a bridle a spurre to prick him forward when he is too backward and a bridle to keep him back when he is too forward Me thinks the refractory will of man is like this untoward Horse who wants the spurre of exhortation to prick him forward to the performance of good when he is dull and defective and the bridle of dehortation or reprehension to refraine his forwardnesse when he runnes head-long into exorbitant courses Reprehendo The Greeks likewise challenge an instruction by an Etymon in their verbal significations Reprehension by them is expressed by three significant words Viz. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or else {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which word signifies plaga ictus or vul●●is a wound or stroke 'T is true in●eed that the words of the reproover must be cutting to make them curing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} super and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} percussio a wounding or striking upon the conscience The powerful words of some Ministers have stricken such strange effects into the consciences of some weak Christians as that they have been no small provocation to despaire and desperation must have some pleasing object though it work to the confusion of the weak subject unlesse the power of Gods hand in his Majesty prevent the intended mischief of Satans head in his malice 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which word signifies querimonia expostulatio or accusatio a complaint expostulation or accusation uttered in some querimonious dialect The Latine may enable the word to beare the burden of this sense expressing it to be the same with accusare and incusare making some difference in respect of the personall object of reprehension onely according to the old verses of that ancient Grammarian JOHANNES 〈◊〉 GARLANDIA Dicitur accusans aequales at que minore● Dicitur incusans majores meliores The Commentary expounds it thus accusare est culpare incusare est reprehendere we accuse and thereby blame our equals